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The wave of uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have prompted the U.S. government to begin developing guidelines for culling intelligence from social media networks, a top Homeland Security official said Monday.

Homeland Security officials told Congress Wednesday they have made major strides in sharing intelligence information as a matter of policy and practice. DHS also is exploring the possibility of a departmentwide intelligence doctrine. Non-interoperable IT systems, however, remain a major obstacle.

Homeland Security continues to align its information technology capabilities with the needs of non-federal partners with whom it shares terrorism-related information. Under Secretary Caryn Wagner gives us an update.